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Reminder: I’ve boarded, bagged, and boxed myself into a maximum of five I&N Demand titles per week. Wasn’t easy this time around. But a nerd’s gotta do what a nerd’s gotta do.

And once again, DC’s the big budget buster of the week. Thing is, I&Nmates, they deserve it.

Briggs Land #2 (Dark Horse)

Harrow County #16 (Dark Horse): I&N Demand Panel for panel, one of the best reads going. Bunn’s a patient storyteller–and it’s terrifying, thanks, in part, to the intensity of Crook’s artwork. Makes me want to scream–in fear and in joy.

Lady Killer 2 #2 (Dark Horse): I&N Demand #1 was a bloody mess–and it was wonderful. My eyebrows spent a bit more time than usual hanging out close to my hairline. No doubt about it: Joëlle Jones is killing it–and everyone; and Michelle Madsen’s colors are to die for.

Action Comics #963 (DC)

All-Star Batman #2 (DC)

Astro City #38 (DC/Vertigo)

Batgirl and The Birds of Prey #2 (DC)

Deathstroke #2 (DC)

Detective Comics #940 (DC): I&N Demand Tynion’s Bat-Team’s been a dream! Reads well on a couple of levels: the writing’s sharp as a Batarang and the topic’s timely as…a…Bat…watch.

Doom Patrol #1 (DC/Young Animal): Just I&N Never did read Doom Patrol; so no investment or expectations here. Just gonna go for it and see what happens.

Black Panther #6 (Marvel): I&N Demand Glad I didn’t drop it after #4–after being battered and bruised, after being left Black Panther and blue, a result of the plodding exposition, which in retrospect, as seen through a swollen eye, was absolutely vital to Coates’ crafting his Wakanda, which was never one of my favorite Marvel U. destinations to begin with. (Savage Land, anyone–ugh.) Oh, yeah: glad: glad ’cause I lovedlovedlovedlovedlovedloved #5, which was a great singular experience, but was an even better result of meticulous world building. I’m all in.

Mockingbird #7 (Marvel)

Scarlet Witch #10 (Marvel)

Cinema Purgatorio #5 (Avatar)

The Forevers #1 (Black Mask): Just I&N A Black Mask #1. ‘Nuff said. (Just wish they were as generous with their #2s and their #3s. Just sayin’.

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Batman #6 (DC): I&N Demand Hmm… Did I like #5? Did I really like it? Check out my write up–I&N the Scottlight: Batman #5–and figure it out for yourself.

Batman #6

Nightwing #4 (DC)

The Sheriff of Babylon #10 (DC/Vertigo): I&N Demand Re: #9: And along came a spider–with a suicide vest strapped to him! King kills it yet again with his simmering brand of realism, characterized by his trademarked terseness. Gerads is truly the perfect partner, selling the suspense with subtle shifts from panel to panel. Team austerity= teeming tension. The convo between Chris and Bob? Man, I can’t wait for that bomb to go off! It all comes down to this: I never want this book to end.

#2: Story time with Akira: “<Narrative deathmatch commence!>” A war of words–a series of salvos–a battle here, there–all of it presaged in the past. Forever Jung…

#1: The page turn that culminates in @TheMaskNotRubenstein’s succinct “We are all hollow”and the corresponding image–a beast with one and two-thirds backs.

Love this goddamned book. Feels like I’m following Rob Williams to hell.

Unfollow #11

Kill or Be Killed #2 (Image)

Nowhere Men #11 (Image)

Paper Girls #9 (Image)

Doctor Strange #11 (Marvel)

Alters #1 (Aftershock): Just I&N Most of the Aftershock books have been kinda blah–save for Dreaming Eagles, American Monster and the still-too-young-to-judge Captain Kid. Plenty of promise here, however: Paul Jenkins rarely disappoints–and gives me an opportunity to type Deathmatch for a second time in this post! Yeah, I know: an heroic transition.